CSAM Vernelle Fox Award

Honoring an Inquiring Mind, Courage and Enthusiasm

An award named after the Society’s second President (1974-1976), Vernelle Fox, MD, as the model for future recipients to be measured for which she was honored in 1983 at the Tenth Annual Meeting. These qualities include:

Inquiring Mind – Contributions to the understanding of the Field
Courage – Resolution and tenacity
Enthusiasm – Energy for the positive

CSAM recognizes physicians who have made noteworthy and lasting contributions in line with the mission of the Society: contributions which improve the quality of health care services, increase communication and education among providers of care and add to the research on which the understanding of the field is based and on which the health care services are built.

CSAM Vernelle Fox Award Recipients

2023 Deborah Stephenson, MD, MPH
2022 Christy Waters, MD
2021 Kenneth Saffier, MD
2020 Monika Koch, MD
2019 Timmen Cermak, MD
2018 Jean Marsters, MD
2017 Barry Zevin, MD
2016 David Kan, MD
2015 Karen Miotto, MD
2014 Steven Eickelberg, MD
2013 George Koob, PhD
2012 Judith Martin, MD
2011 David Pating, MD
2010 Lyman Boynton, MD

2009 George Vaillant, MD
2008 Barry Rosen, MD
2007 Richard Rawson, PhD
2006 Frank Vocci, PhD
2005 Gary Jaeger, MD
2004 Diana Sylvestre, MD
2003 Joan Zweben, PhD
2002 Walter Ling, MD
2001 Linda Ferry, MD
2000 H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH
1999 Donald R. Wesson, MD
1998 Garrett O’Connor, MD
1997 John N. Chappel, MD
1996 James West, MD

1995 Anthony B. Rafcliffe, MD
1994 Jack D. Gordon, MD
1993 George D. Lundberg, MD
1992 J. Thomas Ungerleider, MD
1991 Enoch Gordis, MD
1990 Peter Banys, MD
1989 Gill Ayotte, MD
1989 Josette Mondanaro, MD
1988 Jess Bromley, MD
1987 Max Schneider, MD
1986 David Smith, MD
1985 Joseph Zuska, MD
1984 Mary Pendry, PhD
1983 Vernelle Fox, MD